Owner, breakdesign.com
Singapore
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- Co-founder at Breakdesign.com
- Past
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- Speaker for Adobe Max at Adobe
- Flash Developer & Designer at Prezence
- ITV Content Designer & Developer at Nokia Sweden
- Senior PHP/Flash Developer & Designer at Y&R Stockholm
- Designer & Developer at Internext Interactive
- Education
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- University of the Free State/Universiteit van die Vrystaat
- Grey College
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Stefan Wessels’s Summary
Stefan Wessels, co-founder and technical architect of emerging media company Breakdesign.com has been working in the creative/technical environment since 1997.
Starting in Johannesburg where he was a graphic designer, programmer and systems architect. He later moved to Sweden where he worked as designer (Flash/Web) and programmer (ActionScript/PHP/ASP) for Y&R WCJ Stockholm. At Y&R he created award-winning flash campaigns for Ericsson, MTV, Saab, Xerox, Ford and KLM. At the end of 2001 he joined Nokia Sweden to become content manager & UI designer for their most advanced ITV projects.
After returning to South Africa, he joined a leading UK design firm, where he created international campaigns and content for bands such as Moloko, Kings of Leon, Massive Attack, Foo Fighters & Metallica.
Wanting to take control of their professional lives, himself and Rick Treweek, an animator, illustrator and out-of-the-box thinker, started Breakdesign at the end of 2003 in Cape Town.
Currently Breakdesign, with core team based in Singapore, is a multi-award winning research & development studio creating games and applications for the mass and early adopter market, as well as building mobile applications and platforms to enable these groups to communicate and interact. They regularly consult to creative agencies & technology providers who come to them to help plan and successfully execute first-to-market concepts on emerging platforms.
Their clients include Nokia, Adobe, American Express, Johnny Walker, Sony Ericsson, MTV, Diesel, Tiger Beer and other leading brands across various platforms spread across the globe.
Stefan Wessels’s Specialties:
Creatively & Technically Experienced. UI and Interaction Design, Mobile/Emerging Media Strategy & Consulting, New Systems Design, Mobile Game & Application Development.
Stefan Wessels’s Experience
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Co-founder
Breakdesign.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
August 2004 — Present (5 years)
Rick Treweek and myself founded Breakdesign in 2004 to take control of our professional lives and be able to create and produce work we believe in.
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External Consultant
Nokia
(Public Company; Animation industry)
2005 — 2008 (3 years)
We continuously do consulting for Nokia in Scandinavia & Asia. We have helped them with Symbian problems, developed custom Flash Lite & Symbian software for the launch of phones, advanced themes, and helped integrate new technologies on their phone platforms. We also beta test various software and hardware for them.
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Mobile Development Consultant
OgilvyOne
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WPP; Marketing and Advertising industry)
December 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 3 months)
We have been consulting for Ogilvy Singapore since the end of December 2006. In that time we created two award winning mobile applications for them (Johnnie Walker Digital PA & American Express Digital Concierge), as well being the founding members of the "Ogilvy Innovation Lab". We are currently consulting to them in terms of mobile strategy, design & research.
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Consultant
Movi
(Animation industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
We have been helping a technology company based in California, take their patented media playback technology to the mobile platform using Symbian & Flash Lite technology.
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Speaker for Adobe Max
Adobe
(Public Company; Think Tanks industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
In 2006 I was fortunate to be asked by Adobe to do talks in Las Vegas, Taipei & Singapore at their Max events. The topics were: Breakdesign's "alternative" strategy and general Flash Lite development. It was awesome, I met most of our competitors and they we all really cool people.
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Flash Developer & Designer
Prezence
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year)
Flash Actionscript coder and designer. Clients: Massive Attack, Moloko, Eminem, Foo Fighters, Metallica, Kings of Leon, etc.
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ITV Content Designer & Developer
Nokia Sweden
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOK; Telecommunications industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year)
Content designer and 3rd party content manager for Nokia Mediaterminal ITV project. Development of interfaces and guidance in web features and support for browser programming team.
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Senior PHP/Flash Developer & Designer
Y&R Stockholm
(Design industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Started out as PHP & Web programmer. Later took over Flash coding, and then finally conception, design and Flash programming for international brands.
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Designer & Developer
Internext Interactive
(Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Started as web designer, then became PHP programmer. Later network engineer and Linux administrator. Finally set up routers and mail servers for clients such as Harmony Mines & McDonalds HQ in Johannesburg
Additional Information
Stefan Wessels’s Websites:
Stefan Wessels’s Interests:
Speaker at the following: - Spike Media Awards 2006 Bali: Mobile & Youth Culture - Adobe Max 2006 Las Vegas: Case study on Breakdesign, new ways to launch mobile games - Adobe Max 2006 Taipei: Developing Games for Nokia devices - Adobe Max 2006 Singapore: Developing Games for Nokia devices - Ogilvy Asia Creative Directors Meet 2007 Bali: New developments in mobile. - The Actionscript Conference 2008 Singapore: Flash Lite and the mobile market.
Stefan Wessels’s Honors:
- Cannes Silver Lion for Ericsson Flash Site.
- One Show - Silver for Johnnie Walker Digital PA
- Asia Interactive Awards - Silver - Best Mobile Games/Applications - Johnnie Walker Digital PA.
- Asia Interactive Awards - Silver - Best Viral Marketing Campaign - Johnnie Walker Digital PA.
Yahoo! Big Idea Chair - Silver - Johnnie Walker Digital PA.
